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11. It is by the unfailing fall of rain that the earth sustaineth itself: therefore is the rain called the immortal drink.

12. Every food that is sweet to the taste is given to man by Rain : and itself formeth also part of his food.

13. It rain should fail, famine would rage over the wide earth even though it is encircled by the ocean.

14. Husbandmen would cease to ply the plough if the fountains of the heavens are dried up.

15. It is rain that ruineth, and it is rain again that setteth up those that it hath ruined. 4